Boston Red Sox vs Toronto Blue Jays
May 26, 1979 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 26, 1979 at Exhibition Stadium. The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Boston Red Sox and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
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Boston Red Sox 6, Toronto Blue Jays 7

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Remy 2b 4 1 2 1
Burleson ss 4 0 1 2
Lynn cf 5 0 0 0
Rice lf 4 0 1 0
Fisk dh 4 1 1 0
Yastrzemski 1b 3 1 2 0
Hobson 3b 4 1 1 3
Evans rf 4 1 1 0
O'Berry c 2 0 0 0
  Wolfe ph 0 0 0 0
  Allenson c 1 1 1 0
Eckersley p 0 0 0 0
  Campbell p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 6 10 6
Toronto Blue Jays ab   r   h rbi
Griffin ss 4 1 2 0
Bailor rf 5 1 2 0
Howell 3b 5 1 1 3
Carty dh 4 0 1 0
Mayberry 1b 4 2 2 1
Woods lf 4 1 1 0
Bosetti cf 4 0 1 1
Ainge 2b 4 1 1 0
Cerone c 4 0 2 2
Underwood p 0 0 0 0
  Buskey p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 7 13 7
Boston 000 000 4026101
Toronto 020 200 0037130
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Eckersley   6.1 10 4 3 0 2
  Campbell  L (2-2) 2.1 3 3 3 0 0
Totals
8.2
13
7
6
0
2
  Toronto Blue Jays IP H R ER BB SO
Underwood   8.1 9 6 6 4 9
  Buskey  W (1-0) 0.2 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
10
6
6
4
10

  E–Eckersley (2).  DP–Toronto 1.  2B–Boston Remy (6,off Underwood).  3B–Toronto Griffin (5,off Eckersley).  HR–Boston Hobson (5,7th inning off Underwood 2 on, 1 out), Toronto Mayberry (4,4th inning off Eckersley 0 on, 0 out); Howell (3,9th inning off Campbell 2 on, 2 out).  HBP–Griffin (1,by Eckersley).  WP–Buskey (2).  HBP–Eckersley (1,Griffin).  U-HP–Larry Barnett, 1B–Jim Evans, 2B–Ted Hendry, 3B–Fred Spenn.  T–2:22.  A–31,590.
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